{"id":4409,"date":"2026-04-26T07:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=4409"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:26:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:26:52","slug":"circling-prayer-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=4409","title":{"rendered":"Circling prayer beach 2\/4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"980\" data-end=\"1005\">I \u00a0 circle myself with the voice of the tide,<br \/>\nwith the knowing that I am shaped by the same pull.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"980\" data-end=\"1005\">I place my restlessness into the rhythm of the sea,<br data-start=\"1158\" data-end=\"1161\" \/>my longing out to the horizon that will not close.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1213\" data-end=\"1382\">I relinquish my need to master this moment,<br data-start=\"1256\" data-end=\"1259\" \/>letting each wave undo my certainties.<br data-start=\"1297\" data-end=\"1300\" \/>I ask the waters, not to soothe me,<br data-start=\"1334\" data-end=\"1337\" \/>but to show me what they carry and release.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1384\" data-end=\"1566\">I listen for the response in the sand between my toes,<br data-start=\"1433\" data-end=\"1436\" \/>in the salt that settles on my skin,<br data-start=\"1472\" data-end=\"1475\" \/>in the ache that rises and falls like the tide,<br data-start=\"1522\" data-end=\"1525\" \/>reminding me I am part to this movement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1568\" data-end=\"1731\">Circle me, O Presence,<br data-start=\"1590\" data-end=\"1593\" \/>in the great exchange of coming and going.<br data-start=\"1635\" data-end=\"1638\" \/>Teach me to enter the dialogue of ebb and flow,<br data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1688\" \/>until I no longer cling, but simply flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I \u00a0 circle myself with the voice of the tide, with the knowing that I am shaped by the same pull. I place my restlessness into the rhythm of the sea,my longing out to the horizon that will not close. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/?p=4409\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4417,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4409\/revisions\/4417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sundaypapers.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}